CLASS OF 1925
If any members of the class are deaf, blind, and intentionally unconscious they may be as yet unaware that in a scant ten days there will commence in Hanover a fifth reunion that is destined to go down the annals of the Green as the brightest spot in many a year.
The exact date of Eleazar's progress up the Connecticut with the well-known five hundred gallons in 1769 is not clear, but many historians assert that his arrival in Hanover was on Friday, June thirteenth. To celebrate the one hundred and sixty-first anniversary of that occasion there will this year be an old- fashioned keg tipping bee for 1925.
In order to tip kegs properly there must be more than one (keg) and Frank Wallis and Pete Blodgett have assumed the responsibility of safely delivering two oversize kegs, known as barrels, for the tipping ceremony, which is liable to start most any time during the day.
On the following morning those who are athletically inclined will have an opportunity of displaying their skill by joining in the defeat of 1927 at baseball, and there will be a class meeting, with movies but without music.
Saturday night a dinner is on the program, and Sunday will be devoted to an all day outing at Shanty Shane, which is even now being groomed for the day of days. No events have been scheduled for Monday other than the alumni luncheon, but entertainment, relaxation, and recreation will be abundant.
For any additional information write to Frank Wallis at 84 State St., Boston. Send him a card anyway, to let him know you will be present.
Boston has been having several training sessions for this reunion, one early in April, and at the time of writing a fishing trip was planned for late in May. The April party was attended by about forty-three, including the following: Nate Bugbee, Pete Blodgett, Bill Sleigh, Jock Brace, Lane Goss, Pete Haffenreffer, Larry Bankart, Les King, Frank Wallis, Grif Griffin, Lou Kimball, Les Poorvu, Wils Gardner, Ken Hill, Eddie Pease, Lyn White, Ed Blake, Steve Ryan, Stew Edgerly, Fred Smith, and Pete Peterson.
From The Dartmouth of April 22: "A telegram has been received from Robert A. McKennan '25, forwarded by Indian dog team from the interior of Alaska to Fairbanks and relayed to Seward, indicating the probability that he will be a member of the Department of Sociology next year. After graduation from Dartmouth, Mr. McKennan taught in the Citizenship Department. In 1927 he began a course of graduate study in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, where he won a Sheldon traveling fellowship which provided the auspices under which his present researches are being carried on.
"Since last October lie has been living with the Athabascan Indians in the native villages up and down the Tenana River in central Alaska, making a study of these little known tribes. His outfit was the last to cross the range before winter closed in. Once 'inside' he found himself in a country where gold dust was weighed out in exchange for purchases and where cabins with the owners' accumulation of 'dust' were left unlocked and unguarded as in the gold rush days in California. Farther on in the Indian villages pelts and blankets took the place of gold dust as tokens of wealth. According to the curious custom of Indian hosts, a prosperous tribesman who was giving a pot-latsh thought nothing of giving away a thousand dollars' worth of blankets among his guests.
"It is expected that Mr. McKennan will give a course on the ethnology of the North American Indian during the fall semester."
Bob Wiley was married in Detroit last March to the former Miss Marion Elise Fox.
Rent Halsey was married in April to the former Miss Dorothy Seifert Frees of New Rochelle, New York.
George Moore was married in April to the former Miss Alice Jeanne McKeown of Winnetka, Ill.
A son, Francis, Jr., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Crawford on April ninth.
Whit Campbell knocked over the Chicago alumni by bringing to one luncheon as the speaker of the day, Francis X. Busch, president of the Chicago Bar Association.
Nate Colwell, recently of New York, has forsaken the radio business and is now in advertising in Chicago.
Ted Geisel's latest commission is for""the mural decoration, probably with "Flit" ads, of the drinking room of someone's private home in Kentucky.
No doubt the "Fund Furor" reached you. If you have overlooked the Alumni Fund this year, send your contribution, no matter how small or large, to Bob Strong at Hanover before the end of this month.
And now it is hail and farewell for the secretary. In the past five years there has been much pleasure and there are many worthy memories. Leavetaking is with regret for things undone, thanks for the help offered and received, and hope that there may be even more for the next incumbent.
Secretary, 2710 Graybar Building, New York
